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WILLIAM BAILEY, OF ,NEW YORK, N. Y. Lettere Patent No. 71,120, datedNovember 19, 1867; rtntectatecl July 27, 1867.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING STAMP-GILT PAPER-HANGINGS.

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TO ALL WHOM ITvMAY CONOERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BAILEY, of the city of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Machinery and Apparatus for theManufacture of Stamp-Gilt Paper-Hangings; and I d o hereby declare thatthe following reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform part of this specification.

"Stauipgilt paper-hangings are so called from the fact of their beingproduced by an operation or process of stamping. This process differsmaterially from all others in the line of this manufacture, and hasheretofore involves the use of two thicknesses of the gilding metal:

In my new machinery, the stamping process is continuous, required, andfour times the amount of work is accomplished th in the same length oftime.

My said invention consists, cylinder, and the heating apparatusdescribed heat; second, in the combination of the rotatingimpression-cylinder and the rotating pattern-cylinder with the devices,or `the equivalent thereof, substantially as herein described, forsecuring and adjustingthe patternplates on the pattern-cyllnder; third,in the combination with the impression and pattern-cylinders of aregistering belt, constructed and used substantially as and for thepurposes herein specified; fourth, in the special devices hereinafterdescribed for securing the pattern-plates to the pattern-cylinder.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same.

In the drawing vhereto annexed, A represents a frame, in which aremounted iu suitable boxes 1 1, 2 2, the journals of the cylindersB C.The upper cylinderB is the pattern-cylinder, and carries thepatterns ordesigns d ef. The lower is the impression-cylinder, and is larger(twice, thrice, or in that proportion,) than the upper one, and isarranged at one side of the vertical centre of'the impression-cylinder.The boxes 1 1, 2 .2, are set vin a slot in the frame A, which isinclined to the line of the centres and point of contact of the twocylinders. The boxes of, one, (it may be either, but generally thepatterncylindcr,) are connected with screws z, one at cach end'of Vthemachine, by which to mpve and hold said cylinder in such contact withits fellow as to insure t-hc impression on the papcr being stamped. Theforce of Contact or pressure is limited and governed bythe stopserew 5,Figure 1. The paper is presented to the surface of the periphery of theimpression-cylinder, on that side of the vertical centre thereof whichis opposite the point of impression, asv shown in Figure'3. When sopresented itis supported by an inclined table or apron, D. The object ofthe inclined position of the cylinders and frame, in connection with therelative position of the apron, is to cause the paper, before enteringthe machine, to pass over a portion of the rotund surface of theimpression-cylinder for the purpose of smoothing the paper, as it isimportant to remove all wrinkles from the paper before it enters themachine.

My improved machine isintended and used for stamping any requireddesign, with the same pair of cylin'-V ders. I therefore have thepatterns forming the design engraved on plates, in the form of segments,(Figure 5,) of more or less of the circle, according to circumstances,and then secure them to the periphery of the patterncylinder in suchposition and relation as to give the required design when stamped on thepaper.

The mode of attaching the patterns is not material; I prefer, however, aset of devices which will admit of securing and adjusting thepattern-plates in any desired location on the surface of the cylinder,as I am not then confined in the arrangement of the different plateswhich make up a given design--a desideratum, par ticularly where thedesign consists ofv what are known as fset figures. Such a mode offastening is shown in the drawings, gs. 1, 2, land also in fig. 5, wherea pattern-plate or segment is shown enlarged, under side up. Dove-tailedgrooves 3 are formed on the under side, which have bars 4, ofcorresponding shape (in cross-section) tted therein, and suiciently longto project at the sides of the plate. The projecting ends are embracedby rings or hoops 6, which are driven over them, and thus clamp theplates firmly on the surface of the cylinder in any desired locationthereon.

In the manufacture of stamp-gilt paper-hangings, the size for causingthe metal-leaf to adhere to the one thickness only of the Vgilding metalbeing an the former machines were capable of doing two features whichrender the operation one of very limited speed, and practically paper isused in the form of a dry powder, which is applied to thepaper beforethe gold is laid on, the purpose of the machine being to affix the leai`to the paper in the form or configuration of the required design. Thisis done by heating the pattern-plate, and impressing the same on theleaf and paper, when the heat causes thc powdered size under the leaf tomelt, and the gold to adhere to the paper wherever impressed by thepatternplate, while the remaining size and leaf beingdry, is easilybrushed off, leaving the paper intact, except where stamped with thedesign.

In my machine, the stampingor impressing action is continuous, and aheating agency is required as a part of the apparatus. Itherefore'provide a steam-boiler, 7c, ig.1, located within connectingdistance from the machine, and carry a steam pipe, Z, therefrom to thepattern-cylinder B, which is made hollow, and has hollow journals B1,provided with stalling-boxes B2, around the steam pipes. The supply ofsteam to the cylinder B heats the pattern-plates and maintains an equaltemperature of the required degree.

i In g. 3, I have shown a design in which one figuref is continuous,completely encircling the cylinder, and hence in the operation of themachine some part' o-f that ligure is always in contact with the paperbeing stamped. In this case such continuous contact of the design willcarry the paper through the machine. In these designs, however, whichconsist of what are knownas set figures, there is no such continuouscontact ofthe h pattern with the impression-cylinder, yet the paper mustbe moved through the machine with a speed corresponding to that of thesurface of the design in the rotation of the cylinder, in order to bringthe figures inl proper relation on the paper to sustain the design. Itherefore provide a registering belt, M, in which aresmall staples oreyes t', in which Wedges or keys jare driven, for the purpose ofsecuring the edge ofthe paper thereto.A The belt is endless, and passesaround the impression-cylinder, as seen in figs. 2 and 3. As the paperpassesV along, before entering the machine, an attendant inserts thekeys j, and removes them after the paper emerges from between thecylinders, so as to release the paper from the belt. The` speed of thisbelt in uniformity with that of the surface of the cylinders is insuredby a number of pins, p, in the impression-cylinder, which take intoholes in the belt. Motion is communicated to the machine by adriving-belt, R, (dotted.)

The above-described machinery and apparatus constitutes a new and veryimportant combination for the purpose intended. The operation beingcontinuous, the time lost in the stamping action of thereciprocatingpress is economized, the machine is never stopped during the stamping ofseveral hundred yards, and the contact of the pattern-plate with thegold-leaf being only momentary, the size is not drawn through the leaf`by the heat, so as to require two thicknesses of leaf, hence the work isdone with a single instead of a double thickness, as always heretoforerequired, thus saving one-half the gold or metal-leaf.

In this invention I do not confine myself to the use of steam as aheating agency, nor to special construction, where that may be variedwithout varying the character and principles of the invention. p

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination of the rotating impression-cylinder, the rotatingpattern-cylinder, and the heating apparatus, or the equivalent thereof,as specified, for supplying the pattern-cylinder with heat.

2. The combination of the rotating impression-cylinder and the rotatingpattern-cylinder with the devices, or the equivalent thereof,substantially as described, for securing and adjusting thepattern-plates on the vpattern-cylinder. l

3. The combination with the impression and pattern-cylinders of aregistering belt, constructed and used substantially as and for thepurposes herein specified.

4. The special devices herein described. for securing the pattern-platesto the cylinder,

,WILLIAM BAILEY.

Witnesses:

EARL H. SMITH, Asa JOHNSON.

